Only three more days…

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Thinking Forward…

Some students of Auburn university in Alabama have set up Forward to help and guide all those starting out in PR (like me!). Their managing editor Erin has already got a really sucessful blog of her own and has brought together a group of students, practitioners and lectuers to ‘provide a comprehensive, ever-evolving, online springboard [...]

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all those lovely, injurious tars and resins…

Today Scotland begins its new smoking ban.

I smoke. I love smoking. I’m smoking right now (not really but by the time you read this I could be). Every day I contemplate quiting and everyday I think about it over a cup of tea and a ciggy. Of course, I smoke in the [...]

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Sitting, Waiting, Wishing

Only a few more days and then the Easter Holidays are going to feel like:
Of course I am not going on holiday – apart from a trip down to london to see my folks and friends. Although I am really looking forward to that, I haven’t seen people since Christmas.
The picture is how I [...]

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Hurrah

Excellent news locally. The BNP has been rejected from Keighley, diminishing their number of seats on Bradford City Council to three. Hopefully the whole of Yorkshire will soon be freed from these people and stop voting them in! They drag the reputation of this beautiful county through the mud.
For the Americans who read this the [...]

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He ain’t heavy…

Chloe is right this whole blogging phenomenon is very infectious! More and more people are getting themselves involved and it is pleasing to see.
I was talking to my brother earlier and even he is interested and wants to know what to do and where to go. He is a first year student at Nottingham [...]

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Thank you

A quick thank you to all those who took part answering my questions for my dissertation. You know who you are. Without your contribution the dissertation would have never happened.

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Why is ambition bad?

Today I was assessed on ‘the pitch’ module of this semester. Our entire year got in groups and were given a brief from Harrison Cowley, we then Pitch to our tutors and the top four pitches would go on to present again for Harrison Cowley. The best group of those four wins £1,000 to make [...]

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The inner Librarian

The People from the Bad Pitch Blog are running a petition to end bad PR once and for all, which includes a map so that you can see where all the bloggers are. I think this is great – after all bad PR practices affect everyone in the industry, but also (mainly) because you can [...]

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The CV updation continues

Just had a call from the Guardian Fuller CV. To be honest I had forgotten that I had uploaded my CV, all that time ago. However the guy was really great and offered to re-shedule for April as I was so busy.
I wonder what they will add to it?…

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